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The Long & Short of It. The more fearless molders of U.S. opinion-the advertising agency, the department store and the beauty salon-paid no attention. Bock beer was duly publicized. Women's skirts were raised to what is known as "midcalf" for the new season-a maneuver which would...
Have Fun. Freedom and foolishness, idyls and idiocies, energy and ugliness pursued each other around the museum walls. By professional standards the show was 10% fine and 90% frightful. Sunday painters are becoming almost as common as Sunday drivers, and they can be equally incompetent. But even the worst pictures...
The Edwardian settings in her work are easily explained, she thinks. "I used to love looking in mother's picture album. There was such peace and security then." As for the animals: "Of course I'm a frightful old English lady about animals. I adore them. My animals...
*It ran in the family. Dingaan's brother and predecessor, the frightful Chief Tchaka, slaughtered an estimated 1,000,000 fellow blacks in genocidal wars. He liquidated women as useless, mourned his mother's death by killing 7,000 followers, was himself murdered by Dingaan.
Seldom has a melodrama flashed so many tricks of the trade-pianos, radios, telephones, striking clocks, blinking lights, swinging doors, even false statements in the program. Yet The Closing Door is much more seriously written than the usual thriller and is full of clinical detail and therapeutic advice, some of...